#hell world

Over a year ago, National Public Data (NPD), a search site for people, earned a place in privacy infamy for a security breach that revealed the personal data of 3 billion individuals (that's billion with a "b"). Now, after disappearing, NPD is back. As ZDNET sister publication PCMag reported, NPD is open for snooping again under a new owner, the rather mysterious-sounding Perfect Privacy LLC.

Oh boy. Better head over to nationalpublicdata.com and see if your profile is there. Then follow the handy instructions in the ZDNET article to have yourself removed:

How to remove your information from NPD

Search your name on nationalpublicdata.com.

When you find your profile, click "View Full Profile."

Copy its URL.

Go to nationalpublicdata.com/optout.html.

Drop the URL into the "Your Profile Link" field and click "Request Removal."

Enter an email address, and the site will send you an email requesting that you click to confirm deletion. 

Footage of "gameplay" that has nothing to do with the actual game.

"Playable" ads that aren't actually playable, or only let you get so far before forcing you to open the Play Store.

Games that are made not to be good or entertaining, but to be ad farms and show 30-second ads between every level, sometimes even in the middle of levels, and even FAKE "pay to remove ads" or ad-free behind a SUBSCRIPTION.

All of these are reasons I just don't play mobile games anymore. Remember when mobile game addictions were a real problem? Yeah I think they solved that by making nothing but slop since 2015.

Fake X buttons.

Automatically installing apps you didn't ask for with your phone's "security updates".

Slowing down your scrolling while the ad is onscreen.

Popping up the second you click the Like button on a legitimate video so you like the ad/click a link instead.

Videos that purposely leave out the content you came for.

Fake image slideshows that trick you into swiping into the Store/opening a link.

Covering up the entire screen bit by bit on every news article so it's unreadable.

AI generated and trying to sell a completely fictional product.

Genuinely good and creative content drowned out 10 to 1 by ads and "influencer" videos promoting products.

Videos pretending to be genuine craft videos but are actually selling something.

Hidden links that cover what you're actually trying to click on so you open the ad instead.

Movies that are really just trailers to sell tickets and butts in the seats while the movie itself is soulless utter slop.

Commercials that aren't enjoyable, funny, or creative at all anymore so they can't even be less of a burden to watch.

We're just lucky they haven't found a way to legally siphon money from your bank account with every accidental click.

You'd hear about infested areas out in the rust belt, where entire towns were overtaken by the undead. And mabye you'd see a zombie or two when you're in a really bad neighborhood and you have to cross the street. Most undead are harmless outside of large groups, but it's always good to stay safe.

And if you go to an area that's completely overun things really will look like the apocalypse. And there's something exciting about that. Society is interested in those ghost towns, not as a tragedy, but as a spectacle. You've seen reality TV where people will head into the worst of the outbreak with nothing more then a knife and a camera, all while the locals look on wishing someone could take them back.

Most people don't think about zombies. They're just another thing in the world that sucks right now. Occasionally there's a reminder of them, but eventually you forget why anyone is even afraid at all. It seems so normal.

One of your coworkers was attacked the other day by a zombie. Nobody really knew her well. The main thing people were talking about at the office when it comes to her is how lucky she is the be in the hospital having her wounds treated and disinfected, instead of stuck at work. Someone as young as her is expected to be able to fight one off, mabye she did it on purpose. Nobody was still making jokes when they realized she died, people aren't supposed to die that way if they're rich enough to work in an office.